Agile Contracts in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 698 1,030 1,689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.50% 18.87% 23.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.28% 20.96% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 788 1,203
10th Percentile £367 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £656 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 37
10th Percentile £36.59 £30.54 £31.00
25th Percentile £37.55 £37.50 £38.68
Median hourly rate £47.16 £55.19 £57.95
Median % change year-on-year -14.56% -4.76% +146.60%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £67.68 £78.90
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,040 4,914 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.94% 90.05% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,382 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 205 254
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.72 £13.53
Median hourly rate £20.77 £25.00 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +31.27% +6.93%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.48 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.39 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West 0 395 £525 -2.33% 397
Yorkshire 0 261 £515 -6.41% 172
North East +1 55 £533 -7.39% 61
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (5.30%) Confluence
2 9 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) Apache
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.86%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) IIS
6 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.29%) Mule
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.86%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.57%) Misys Midas
4 4 (0.57%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.43%) Aareon QL
5 3 (0.43%) Maximo
6 2 (0.29%) iTrent
6 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 131 (18.77%) Azure
2 120 (17.19%) AWS
3 51 (7.31%) GitHub
4 46 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (5.01%) GCP
6 33 (4.73%) Serverless
7 31 (4.44%) SaaS
8 25 (3.58%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.01%) PaaS
12 13 (1.86%) IaaS
13 12 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.29%) BrowserStack
14 9 (1.29%) Kong
14 9 (1.29%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.15%) Azure Functions
15 8 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.88%) Firewall
2 40 (5.73%) VPN
3 18 (2.58%) HTTP
4 11 (1.58%) DNS
5 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.86%) SSL
7 5 (0.72%) FTP
7 5 (0.72%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.57%) Network Security
9 3 (0.43%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.43%) WAN
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) RTP
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) Wireless
11 1 (0.14%) PPP
11 1 (0.14%) RFID
11 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (3.72%) MongoDB
3 25 (3.58%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.01%) Power BI
5 19 (2.72%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.58%) GIS
9 10 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.29%) MySQL
10 9 (1.29%) Redis
11 7 (1.00%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.86%) Big Data
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.86%) Tableau
13 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 98 (14.04%) JIRA
2 64 (9.17%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.31%) Git
4 35 (5.01%) GitLab
5 29 (4.15%) Selenium
6 27 (3.87%) JUnit
7 19 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.58%) JMeter
9 10 (1.43%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.29%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.29%) Postman
10 9 (1.29%) Travis CI
11 8 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.72%) Mockito
13 5 (0.72%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.57%) Jasmine
14 4 (0.57%) Mocha
General
1 193 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 109 (15.62%) Finance
3 86 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (4.58%) Banking
6 22 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.29%) Legal
9 15 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.72%) Retail
11 11 (1.58%) Marketing
12 9 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.00%) Military
15 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.57%) Front Office
15 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.57%) Law
16 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (14.47%) Architect
1 101 (14.47%) Developer
2 78 (11.17%) Analyst
3 66 (9.46%) Lead
3 66 (9.46%) Project Manager
4 62 (8.88%) Senior
5 48 (6.88%) Business Analyst
6 40 (5.73%) Java Developer
6 40 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
7 37 (5.30%) Technical Architect
8 33 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (4.44%) Lead Architect
10 30 (4.30%) Technical Leader
11 28 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.01%) Software Engineer
12 21 (3.01%) Test Engineer
13 18 (2.58%) Tester
14 16 (2.29%) Automation Tester
15 15 (2.15%) Senior Manager
16 13 (1.86%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.74%) Node.js
2 48 (6.88%) REST
3 46 (6.59%) React
4 38 (5.44%) Spring
5 37 (5.30%) JSON
6 34 (4.87%) .NET
6 34 (4.87%) Spring Boot
6 34 (4.87%) XML
7 26 (3.72%) Kafka
8 24 (3.44%) HTML
9 23 (3.30%) Hibernate
9 23 (3.30%) JPA
10 21 (3.01%) YAML
11 20 (2.87%) Web Services
12 18 (2.58%) CSS
12 18 (2.58%) RESTful
13 16 (2.29%) .NET Framework
14 15 (2.15%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.15%) Gherkin
15 12 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.88%) Product Ownership
2 39 (5.59%) Public Cloud
3 19 (2.72%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 9 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.00%) NHS
11 6 (0.86%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.72%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.59%) Windows
2 42 (6.02%) Android
3 41 (5.87%) Apple iOS
4 38 (5.44%) Linux
5 35 (5.01%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.15%) Unix
7 14 (2.01%) zOS
8 7 (1.00%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.43%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (26.93%) DevOps
2 141 (20.20%) Scrum
3 137 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 117 (16.76%) Project Management
5 110 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 103 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (14.04%) Waterfall
8 88 (12.61%) Test Automation
9 74 (10.60%) Microservices
10 66 (9.46%) Software Engineering
11 59 (8.45%) Project Delivery
11 59 (8.45%) Risk Management
12 56 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (8.02%) Mentoring
12 56 (8.02%) Migration
13 55 (7.88%) Design Patterns
14 54 (7.74%) Roadmaps
15 50 (7.16%) SDLC
16 48 (6.88%) TDD
17 47 (6.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 131 (18.77%) Java
2 73 (10.46%) Python
3 71 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 62 (8.88%) SQL
5 40 (5.73%) C#
6 34 (4.87%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.72%) Bash
9 18 (2.58%) Scala
10 14 (2.01%) JCL
11 11 (1.58%) REXX
12 10 (1.43%) C
13 9 (1.29%) Groovy
14 8 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.00%) C++
15 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.86%) Go
16 6 (0.86%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.57%) Ruby
17 4 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 86 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.31%) Degree
4 16 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.15%) PMP
8 6 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.72%) CBAP
10 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.43%) OSCP
12 2 (0.29%) APMG
12 2 (0.29%) CCSA
12 2 (0.29%) CCSE
12 2 (0.29%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.88%) QA
2 30 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.72%) PMO
4 17 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.15%) GRC
5 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.57%) GDPR
6 4 (0.57%) MISRA
6 4 (0.57%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.57%) WCAG
7 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) GxP
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.29%) P3O
9 1 (0.14%) GAMP
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 54 (7.74%) Docker
2 14 (2.01%) NFS
2 14 (2.01%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.02%) Terraform
3 45 (6.45%) Ansible
4 29 (4.15%) Grafana
5 27 (3.87%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 11 (1.58%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.58%) Puppet
8 10 (1.43%) Kibana
9 9 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.29%) logstash
10 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.43%) Istio
12 2 (0.29%) Kiali
13 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.14%) Graylog
13 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) Nessus
13 1 (0.14%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 54 (7.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.15%) SAP
3 23 (3.30%) Oracle
4 20 (2.87%) Google
5 18 (2.58%) IBM
6 15 (2.15%) Broadcom
6 15 (2.15%) Dell
6 15 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.01%) Brocade
7 14 (2.01%) CA
8 13 (1.86%) Splunk
9 9 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.00%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.86%) Cisco
11 6 (0.86%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.72%) F5
12 5 (0.72%) Talend
12 5 (0.72%) VMware